This Festival Celebrates the First Day of Summer With Free Music Pretty Much Everywhere

If you like free music, call in sick today. A one-day festival called is celebrating the first official day of summer with over 100 performers presenting free concerts and music workshops throughout L.A. County, from Long Beach to Thousand Oaks.

The 24-hour festival, which actually started at midnight (sorry we didn’t let you know sooner), is based on France’s Fête de la Musique, a national music holiday which began in 1982 and has now inspired similar festivals in over 750 cities in 120 countries.

The L.A. version will feature everything from a traveling Ella Fitzgerald tribute with celebrated jazz vocalist Barbara Morrison to bucket drummer demonstrations and workshops by drummer Sergio Facci. There will be a participatory at the Midnight Mission, an at Circus Books in Silver Lake, an afternoon concert at the Skirball Center by singer-songwriter , and too many other cool events in venues both familiar and unlikely to list here. Even is getting in on the action.

Tickets? You don’t need no stinkin’ tickets. It’s all free, remember? But you can explore the full range of offerings at .

“The times we live in are difficult now and music and the arts have healing powers,” Make Music L.A. founder Dorsay Dujon said via a press release. “It’s important for us to embrace the arts in our communities and share our cultural heritage with our neighbors.” Amen to that.

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